3375.50
Allowance to law libraries from fines and penalties of municipal courts.

Amended and transferred to 307.515 All fines and penalties
collected by, and moneys arising from forfeited bail in, a municipal court for
offenses and misdemeanors brought for prosecution in the name of a municipal
corporation under one of its penal ordinances, where there is in force a state
statute under which the offense might be prosecuted, or brought for prosecution
in the name of the state, except a portion of such fines, penalties, and moneys
which, plus all costs collected monthly in such state cases, equal the
compensation allowed by the board of county commissioners to the judges of the
municipal court, its clerk, and the prosecuting attorney of such court in state
cases, shall be retained by the clerk of such municipal court, and be paid by
him forthwith, each month, to the board of trustees of the law library
association in the county in which such municipal corporation is located. The
sum so retained and paid by the clerk of the municipal court to the board of
trustees of such law library association shall, in no month, be less than
twenty-five per cent of the amount of such fines, penalties, and moneys
received in that month, without deducting the amount of the allowance of the
board of county commissioners to the judges, clerk, and prosecuting attorney.
The total amount paid under this section in any one calendar year by the clerks
of all municipal courts in any one county to the board of trustees of such law
library association shall in no event exceed the following amounts:

(A)
In counties having a population of fifty
thousand or less, seventy-five hundred dollars and the maximum amount paid by
any of such courts shall not exceed four thousand dollars in any calendar year.

(B)
In counties having a
population in excess of fifty thousand but not in excess of one hundred
thousand, eight thousand dollars and the maximum amount paid by any of such
courts shall not exceed five thousand five hundred dollars in any calendar
year.

(C)
In counties having a
population in excess of one hundred thousand but not in excess of one hundred
fifty thousand, ten thousand dollars and the maximum amount paid by any of such
courts shall not exceed seven thousand dollars in any calendar year.

(D)
In counties having a population of in
excess of one hundred fifty thousand, fifteen thousand dollars in any calendar
year. The maximum amount to be paid by each such clerk shall be determined by
the county auditor in December of each year for the next succeeding calendar
year, and shall bear the same ratio to the total amount payable under this
section from the clerks of all municipal courts in such county as the total
fines, costs, and forfeitures received by the corresponding municipal court,
bear to the total fines, costs, and forfeitures received by all the municipal
courts in the county, as shown for the last complete year of actual receipts,
on the latest available budgets of such municipal courts. Payments in the full
amounts provided in this section shall be made monthly by each clerk in each
calendar year until the maximum amount for such year has been paid. When such
amount, so determined by the auditor, has been paid to the board of trustees of
such law library association, then no further payments shall be required in
that calendar year from the clerk of such court.

(E)
This section does not apply to fines
collected by a municipal court for violations of division (B) of section
4513.263 of the Revised Code, or
for violations of any municipal ordinance that is substantively comparable to
that division, all of which shall be forwarded to the treasurer of state as
provided in division (E) of section
4513.263 of the Revised Code.

Effective Date:
05-06-1986; 2008 HB420 01-01-2010 This version is in effect until
01-01-2010